Frances Farmer

It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me. ”

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it. ”

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one. ”

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them. ”

I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick. ”

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. ”

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. ”

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true. ”

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always? ”

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God. ”